Using 115 volt (60 hertz) Wall Warts on 230 volts (50 hertz).

[Terry]

Moving from North America 115 volt 60 hertz outlets to a country
where voltage is 230v 50 hertz.
Pondering a good way to power some some items that use low
voltage (e.g. 4 to 9 volt 300 to 500 milliamp output) from wall
warts without dragging around a heavy step down transformer or
variac?
Would welcome any suggestions; we presume that a typical WW has a
low VA step down transformer and contains a half wave or full
wave rectifier and some 'smoothing' capacitors?
TIA. Terry.

 

[Rich Grise]

Don't bother. Just leave the wall warts here and buy new ones in
the 230V country.

Have Fun!
Rich

 

[petrus bitbyter]

Moving from North America 115 volt 60 hertz outlets to a country
where voltage is 230v 50 hertz.
Pondering a good way to power some some items that use low
voltage (e.g. 4 to 9 volt 300 to 500 milliamp output) from wall
warts without dragging around a heavy step down transformer or
variac?
Would welcome any suggestions; we presume that a typical WW has a
low VA step down transformer and contains a half wave or full
wave rectifier and some 'smoothing' capacitors?
TIA. Terry.

Terry,

I cann imagine some possibilities but all of them are more expensive and/or
dangerous then buying some new wall warts

BTW. Even if you use a step down transformer you may run into trouble.
Transformers designed to run 60Hz may not like 50Hz. Especially cheap ones
may become saturated and very hot.

petrus